Rachana Katkam
Staff Applied Research Scientist at ServiceNow
California, United States
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Top SchoolRachana Katkam is a Staff Applied Research Scientist based in California with 11 years of engineering experience and a strong focus on applied generative AI and scalable systems. She has led R&D and production services for Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and edge computing during senior roles at Oracle and now ServiceNow, translating research prototypes into robust platform services. Her background spans end-to-end software delivery—from offline content distribution running in 800+ locations to semantic search and contextual information retrieval using entity recognition and cosine-similarity models. Comfortable across Python, Django, and large-scale data pipelines, she also has hands-on experience designing REST integrations and click-stream analytics that resolved the vast majority of research questions. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic scientist who bridges research and productization, prioritizing reproducible, production-ready AI features. She combines advanced degrees in computer science with a track record of turning complex academic requirements into operational solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Shardashram Vidyamandir High SchoolMaster of Computer Applications - MCA Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications - MCA Computer Science at Mumbai Educational Trust, MET League of CollegesMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Central Missouri
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (44)
mongodb10
pickle9
keyword-extraction9
serialization9
python9
data-extraction8
unlock8
word2vec8
sentence7
r7
discrimination7
linguistics7
bias-detection7
natural-language-processing7
nlp7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
katkamrachana/mailDropper
Oct 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
katkamrachana/gstudio
May 2015 - May 2018
gstudio is a node description framework (NDF) to create knowledge networks. We are recreating gnowsys-studio with mongodb as storage. This scaled up version with support for multiple projects will be used for the several OER and open courseware projects.
Contributions:101 commits, 2 PRs, 1306 pushes in 2 years 11 months
mongodb
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